Chris Rock hits again at Will Smith in Netflix livestream

LOS ANGELES: Chris Rock lastly hit again at Will Smith on Saturday in a brutal stand-up routine, a yr after the actor slapped him in entrance of a worldwide TV viewers for the Oscars.

The comic got here out swinging, accusing the Hollywood star of “selective outrage” when he reacted to a jibe about Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head, and saying Smith lashed out at a shorter man as a result of he was aggravated his spouse had cheated on him.

“Will Smith practices selective outrage,” Rock advised an viewers in a present that was streamed stay on Netflix.

“Everyone that actually is aware of, is aware of I had nothing to do with that. I didn’t have any entanglements,” he mentioned, referring to Pinkett Smith’s acknowledged marital infidelity.

Rock was presenting an Oscar in Hollywood final March when he made a crack about Pinkett Smith’s intently cropped head.

The “Males in Black” star mounted the stage and slapped the comic laborious throughout the face, earlier than returning to his seat and yelling obscenities on the presenter.

A couple of minutes later, Smith was offered with an Oscar for greatest actor for his position in “King Richard.”

He later apologized to Rock, however was banned from the Oscars for a decade.

Rock was praised for his measured response on the night time, and has maintained close to silence on the problem within the yr since.

However on Saturday night time’s livestream from Baltimore, he let rip.

“Folks ask ‘Did it harm?’. It nonetheless hurts,” he mentioned.

“Will Smith is considerably larger than me. Will Smith performed Muhammad Ali in a film. You suppose I auditioned for that?”

The comic mentioned Smith had been broadly mocked after an episode of his spouse’s podcast wherein the couple talked about her affair and the way it affected him.

“Why would you do this?” he requested. Many individuals have been cheated on, however the Hollywood energy couple are the one ones who mentioned it in public that manner, he mentioned.

“Everyone on the planet referred to as him a bitch. They referred to as his spouse a predator. Everyone referred to as him a bitch,” he mentioned, noting that he had tried to supply condolences after information of the affair turned public.

Rock mentioned the animosity from Pinkett Smith stemmed from just a few years earlier when she had referred to as on him to boycott the Oscars as a result of her husband had been neglected for his 2015 film “Concussion.”

“She mentioned… a grown ass man ought to give up his job as a result of her husband didn’t get nominated for ‘Concussion.’ Then (Smith) provides me a concussion,” he quipped.

“What the fuck? So did I do some jokes about it? Who provides a fuck? That’s how it’s; she begins it, I end it. No one was choosing on her.”

Rock, who at instances appeared genuinely offended, mentioned earlier than final yr, he had at all times cherished Smith, first as a rapper, after which as an actor.

“He’d made some nice films. I’ve rooted for Will Smith my complete life,” however now, he mentioned, he was rooting for the slave grasp who beats Smith’s character in his newest film, “Emancipation.”

This yr’s Oscars will probably be held on March 12.